By Gillian Rees – Staff Reporter 

The Jonathan Law girls swim and dive team recently finished off its best season ever with a record of 11-1.

The girls ended their record season with a 99-87 win against Mercy which was their hardest match all season.

“The coaches are very proud of what the girls have accomplished so far this season,” head coach Mrs. Anderson said. “We are looking forward to states.”

As this season is over, sadly, it was also the last high school season for five seniors: Lily Baldieri, Ali Gordon, Bridget Kinross, Tess Rosato and Brooke Nabors.

“I’m really glad we ended our regular season with the best record law swim has ever had, but it is also a bittersweet experience since swim is my favorite part of high school,” Nabors said. “The thing I’ll miss the most is being so close with all the girls.” 

The swimmers who have already automatically qualified for states are Brooke Nabors, Tess Rosato, Lily Baldieri, Hannah Rascoll, Athena Homorodean, Hennessey Shane, Olivia Franzman, Alexa Darak, Emma Savoie, Makenna Sharpe and Macie Rascoll. There are other girls who haven’t qualified yet that will be competing at the CIAC Class S qualifying meet on 11/16 at Cheshire. 

“I’m really nervous about states; it’s only my second big meet,” Sharpe said. “I feel like I am well-prepared.” 

There were many school records broken by girls on the team this season, one of them being junior Hennessey Shane who holds the record for the 100m breaststroke at a time of 1:14.19. Sophomore Emma Savoie also established new school records this season with times of 2:01.35 in the 200 medley relay, 1:01.08 in the 100 butterfly and 2:15.86 in the 200 I.M.

“I would like to break my own school record again at the state meets and try to get the lowest time possible for me,”  Shane said. “I’m a little nervous but excited to see how I place in my events.” 

Even though swim and dive is a mainly individual sport, to be successful as a team there needs to be team chemistry and athletes need to be able to motivate each other. The team is generally very close with each other and did things like “secret psycher” before away meets to hype each other up.

“The swim team is like a family, we are all very close and we all support each other so much,” Sharpe said. “I think our team worked really well together this season.”

The girls’ Senior Night was on October 28 at the Foran pool, where they went head to head against Foran and pushed hard for a win. The final score of the meet was Law 93, Foran 85.

“It felt very rewarding seeing how our hard work and determination paid off on our senior night. Our meet against Foran is always a great competition,” Baldieri said. “Although we are more focused on pushing ourselves and demonstrating sportsmanship, it was a very rewarding end to the season.”